[Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 4.0.0-rc1 is now available

[Michael Roth]

Hello,

On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of the
second release candidate for the QEMU 4.0 release.  This release is meant
for testing purposes and should not be used in a production environment.

  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-4.0.0-rc1.tar.xz
  http://download.qemu-project.org/qemu-4.0.0-rc1.tar.xz.sig

You can help improve the quality of the QEMU 4.0 release by testing this
release and reporting bugs on Launchpad:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/

The release plan, as well a documented known issues for release
candidates, are available at:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/4.0

Please add entries to the ChangeLog for the 4.0 release below:

  http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.0

Thank you to everyone involved!

49fc899f8d: Update version for v4.0.0-rc1 release (Peter Maydell)
c99ef792dc: gdbstub: fix vCont packet handling when no thread is specified (Luc 
Michel)
c8877d0f2f: target/arm: Set SIMDMISC and FPMISC for 32-bit -cpu max (Richard 
Henderson)
339534d402: ati-vga: Fix indexed access to video memory (BALATON Zoltan)
ab8789987f: ohci: don't die on ED_LINK_LIMIT overflow (Laurent Vivier)
c6e3f520c8: qemu-io: Add write -n for BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK (Kevin Wolf)
c9fdcf202f: qemu-img: Use BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK for pre-zeroing (Kevin Wolf)
738301e117: file-posix: Support BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK for zero writes (Kevin 
Wolf)
80f5c33ff3: block: Advertise BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK in filter drivers (Kevin Wolf)
fe0480d629: block: Add BDRV_REQ_NO_FALLBACK (Kevin Wolf)
48ce986096: block: Remove error messages in bdrv_make_zero() (Kevin Wolf)
a66c4b83c9: iotests: add 248: test resume mirror after auto pause on ENOSPC 
(Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
620455350a: target/riscv: Fix wrong expanding for c.fswsp (Kito Cheng)
3f905a5bba: pflash: Bury disabled code to limit device sizes (Alex Bennée)
06f1521795: pflash: Require backend size to match device, improve errors 
(Markus Armbruster)
413aeacd4b: qapi/qmp-dispatch: fix return value in do_qmp_dispatch (Vladimir 
Sementsov-Ogievskiy)
19e8ff485a: json: Fix off-by-one assert check in next_state() (Liam Merwick)
ad85b0b4c7: xen-block: Replace qdict_put_obj() by qdict_put() where appropriate 
(Markus Armbruster)
57b7291e90: util/error: Remove an unnecessary NULL check (Philippe 
Mathieu-Daudé)
c38c1c142e: migration/postcopy: Update the bandwidth during postcopy (Dr. David 
Alan Gilbert)
5ed0deca41: Migration/colo.c: Make user obtain the last COLO mode info after 
failover (Zhang Chen)
82cd368ccd: Migration/colo.c: Add the necessary checks for colo_do_failover 
(Zhang Chen)
3a43ac4757: Migration/colo.c: Add new COLOExitReason to handle all failover 
state (Zhang Chen)
1fe6ab267f: Migration/colo.c: Fix COLO failover status error (Zhang Chen)
281496bb8a: migration/rdma: Check qemu_rdma_init_one_block (Dr. David Alan 
Gilbert)
d2f1d29b95: migration: add support for a "tls-authz" migration parameter 
(Daniel P. Berrange)
cbfd6c957a: multifd: Drop x- (Juan Quintela)
5fbd8b4bbb: multifd: Add some padding (Juan Quintela)
4b0c72645c: multifd: Change default packet size (Juan Quintela)
7ed379b286: multifd: Be flexible about packet size (Juan Quintela)
efd1a1d640: multifd: Drop x-multifd-page-count parameter (Juan Quintela)
2a34ee593b: multifd: Create new next_packet_size field (Juan Quintela)
6f86269295: multifd: Rename "size" member to pages_alloc (Juan Quintela)
ad24c7cb59: multifd: Only send pages when packet are not empty (Juan Quintela)
f2b2f53f64: target/arm: make pmccntr_op_start/finish static (Andrew Jones)
a46118fc16: target/arm: cortex-a7 and cortex-a15 have pmus (Andrew Jones)
cbbb3041fe: target/arm: fix crash on pmu register access (Andrew Jones)
da77e0fad4: target/arm: add PCI_TESTDEV back to default config (Andrew Jones)
4261b2f915: nrf51_gpio: reflect pull-up/pull-down to IRQs (Paolo Bonzini)
a036f5302c: target/arm: Fix non-parallel expansion of CASP (Richard Henderson)
87db901820: docker: trivial changes to `make docker` help (Wainer dos Santos 
Moschetta)
a6de52ac7a: docker: Fix travis script unable to find source dir (Wainer dos 
Santos Moschetta)
e8ced6813d: docker: Fix travis.py parser and misc change (Wainer dos Santos 
Moschetta)
896f51fbfa: hardfloat: fix float32/64 fused multiply-add (Kito Cheng)
7ca96e1a9c: target/mips: Fix minor bug in FPU (Mateja Marjanovic)
aec2927dda: .travis.yml: reduce number of targets built while disabling things 
(Alex Bennée)
386dc51492: .travis.yml: --disable-user for --without-default-devices (Alex 
Bennée)
8c3daf975b: .travis.yml: split some more system builds (Alex Bennée)
447e133f7a: configure: add --target-list-exclude (Alex Bennée)
7849f0c2ec: slirp: is not maintained by Kelly Price for a long time (Marc-André 
Lureau)
0c4cc4e218: slirp: remove reference to COPYRIGHT file (Marc-André Lureau)
dfacac4c81: slirp: clarify license of slirp files using SPDX: implicit via 
unstated (Marc-André Lureau)
3e6d35e560: slirp: clarify license of slirp files using SPDX: implicit via 
COPYRIGHT (Marc-André Lureau)
6087fd53a3: slirp: clarify license of slirp files using SPDX: explicit MIT 
(Marc-André Lureau)
d2f27fcbdf: slirp: clarify license of slirp files using SPDX: explicit BSD 
(Marc-André Lureau)
87ecdc7115: slirp: relicense GPL files to BSD-3 (Marc-André Lureau)
772c712731: slirp: update COPYRIGHT to use full 3-Clause BSD License 
(Marc-André Lureau)
dec9776049: trace-events: Fix attribution of trace points to source (Markus 
Armbruster)
a9779a3ab0: trace-events: Delete unused trace points (Markus Armbruster)
a44cf524f8: scripts/cleanup-trace-events: Update for current practice (Markus 
Armbruster)
500016e5db: trace-events: Shorten file names in comments (Markus Armbruster)
e68b3baa25: trace-events: Consistently point to docs/devel/tracing.txt (Markus 
Armbruster)
b33b890cd0: trace: avoid SystemTap dtrace(1) warnings on empty files (Stefan 
Hajnoczi)
fd9858317a: trace: handle tracefs path truncation (Stefan Hajnoczi)
f17e02cd37: target/riscv: Zero extend the inputs of divuw and remuw (Palmer 
Dabbelt)
5993e3be1d: crypto/block: remove redundant struct packing to fix build with gcc 
9 (Greg Kurz)
063603d43e: authz: Use OBJECT_CHECK() on objects (Philippe Mathieu-Daudé)
dd154c4d9f: io: fix handling of EOF / error conditions in websock GSource 
(Daniel P. Berrangé)
21ee4787e5: docs: add note about stibp CPU feature for spectre v2 (Daniel P. 
Berrangé)
174a78a8a5: docs: clarify that spec-ctrl is only needed for Spectre v2 (Daniel 
P. Berrangé)
bb4928c7ca: i386: Disable OSPKE on CPU model definitions (Eduardo Habkost)
014018e19b: i386: Make arch_capabilities migratable (Eduardo Habkost)
485b1d256b: i386: kvm: Disable arch_capabilities if MSR can't be set (Eduardo 
Habkost)